Aerospace Mechanics Research Center (AMReC)
“This is probably the most radical conceptual advancement for airplanes since the replacement of propellers with jets.” – Mahmoud Hussein is not pulling punches about the potential impact of a major aerospace materials research project.
Alireza Doostan is leading a major effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research. Doostan is the principal investigator on a $1.2 million...
Three faculty members from the CU 51´«Ă˝ College of Engineering and Applied Science are conducting projects awarded through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program. The highly
Robyn Macdonald is pushing the limits of hypersonic research with a new NASA grant.Macdonald, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado 51´«Ă˝, has
This year, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) celebrates its 75th anniversary—marking 75 years of CU 51´«Ă˝â€™s exploration of space, from the fringes of Earth’s atmosphere to the wide expanse of interstellar space. The
Sanghamitra Neogi has earned a key Department of Defense contract to tackle a big problem with tiny electronics: microchips crippled by heat. An assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado 51´«Ă˝, Neogi is leading a multi-university research team to...
The sounds of construction permeate the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building at the University of Colorado 51´«Ă˝. The bang of hammers. The wail of electric saws. A new laboratory for a plasma wind tunnel is taking shape. The project is the vision of...
Iain Boyd was interviewed for a new article in Popular Mechanics on efforts to track hypersonic weapons. At issue? Hypersonic weapons often travel at fast enough speeds to generate a sheath of plasma, which can obscure them to radar. Traditional
Robyn Macdonald is an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU 51´«Ă˝. Her research interests include hypersonic flows, computation of chemically reacting flows, chemical kinetics, and radiation
Hisham Ali is pushing the limits of plasma physics and hypersonics in his lab on campus to advance a nationally important area of science and engineering. Ali, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering